Setting the new standard for humankind's future with AI

Matthew James Bailey is an internationally recognised pioneer and authority in Innovation and Territory-Wide Systems Change; Global AI Ethics and Artificial Intelligence; Smart Cities and The Internet of Things.  His life and career have been dedicated to liberating flourishing futures for humankind through partnership with the digital world.  His extraordinary leadership is widely acknowledged throughout governments and the private sector. He is a sought-after advisor and keynote speaker. Bailey has been privileged to meet famous global leaders such as Steve Wozniak, innovation and technology; Sir David Attenborough and John P. Milton, the environment; Professor Stephen Hawking, theoretical physicist and cosmologist; in addition to prime ministers, ministers, under secretaries, representatives of G7 Countries, and many more. He has assisted multiple territories and global technology companies to successfully position themselves into the digital future. His leadership has had global impact.

  Matthew is the inventor of the world leading Ethical AI Certification and Maturity Model™ - a breakthrough methodology for qualifying and quantifying,  measuring, assessing, classifying and certifying the "Ethical" Quality of AI. This unicorn invention reveals for the FIRST time in  human history the ability to create an ETHICAL GENEALOGY and ETHICAL GENOME for artificial intelligence.  This revelation  sets the ethical standard for human-machine futures and a new course for humankind. 

Bailey has been classified by the US government as “A Person of Extraordinary Ability” (self-sponsored) for his global and influential work in the Internet of Things (IoT) and innovation. This elite and prestigious recognition is only awarded to those who have attained an exceptional level of achievement in their field of expertise i.e. one of that small percentage who have risen to the very top of the field of endeavour. He has also  been a World Technology Network award nominee.  In September 2021, Matthew was recognised as a Who's Who in Artificial Intelligence and in February 2022 invited as a Visiting Scholar by the National Institute of Aerospace.

Bailey operates at the intersection of innovation and leading edge technologies to enable positive economic, social, and environmental change. His vision for society, guiding innovation, and technologies that advance humanity into its future (what he terms World 3.0) has inspired governments, business and citizens. He has participated in discussions with the United States’ government, private roundtable with the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence and the Quad Countries, and introduced  the Prime Minister of the  United Kingdom  to the Internet of Things. Matthew has advised nations on domestic and global strategies to position  their country as a prominent leader in the fields of innovation, Artificial Intelligence, the Internet of Things and Smart Cities.

Bailey’s commitment to working for the advancement of global society has influenced organisations and territories in their partnership with the digital world. He has worked with Fortune 500 companies in computing and telecoms. He has advised national and regional governments, worked with economic development agencies, and contributed in the success of global wireless and edge computing standards bodies. International and national investors have sought his advice as have serial entrepreneurs and startups in a number of countries. With a passion for education, he has guided international educational organisations, supported numerous accelerators and been a guest lecturer at Cambridge University. Currently, Matthew  is a Special Advisor and Visiting Scholar to Pakistan's University of Management and Technology and is a Visiting Scholar at a business and technology university in Costa Rica.

With an ambition to advance regional transformation, Matthew has contributed to the progression of the Province of Alberta, Canada and developmet of its regional-wide innovation ecosystem, as a board member of the Alberta Research and Innovation Authority. He catalysed transformation for the state of Colorado as the original co-founder of the Colorado Smart Cities Alliance, the first state-wide alliance in the United States, and a US$ Multi-Million Smart City Innovation Centre dedicated to serve state-wide digital transformation.  Matthew has helped build technology start-ups, one of which exited at US$50 Million and built a US $100 Million global smart city practice for a Fortune technology company within 12 months. In 2016, he wrote a Whitepaper outlining innovation and technology cluster principles. This paper, titled “How to Build Smart Cities Mindfully”, has set the standard for Smart Cities around the world. He recently co-authored a whitepaper titled "Artificial Intelligence with Cities - the next stage of societal digital transformation" an EU/US collaboration with the FIWARE Foundation.

Matthew is co-chair of an Artificial Intelligence-Smart City-Super Computing Cluster that is part of the Global City Teams Challenge (GCTC), Member of the Board of Directors for the Open Civic Foundation - a Smart Region global standard initiative partnering with the OMG, GCTC, NIST/NTIA. He is the Global Ambassador of an Artificial Intelligence Innovation District for a Medical Technology City in Mwale, Kenya; serves on the board of a European Artificial Intelligence startup - Smarter.AI;  serves on the advisory board for Smart Cities Miami Expo and is a Research Associate for the Cambridge Learning Gateway. In 2021, he completed an interim role as Executive Advisor  for a US company provisioning Supercomputing and Trusted Data Infrastructure to enable Artificial Intelligence to serve Society, Cities and Space and serving on the national steering committee for The Global Cities Team Challenge (NIST/NTIA);  

Bailey is known as an energetic and inspiring communicator. He is regularly featured as a keynote speaker around the world at both public and private events. He has shared his ideas in radio interviews, through the press, in podcasts and on online media. The largest audience has been 3 million people on a BBC radio program.

Originally from England, Matthew James Bailey currently lives in the United States where he enjoys writing and consulting globally with clients in the public and private sectors. Matthew is a regular blogger and columnist. Following publication of his book - Inventing World 3.0 - he founded AIEthics.World and The World Wide Ethical AI Institute.